TERMS Allusion -- a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. (Example: She played Deliah to his Samson). Asides - are passages in which the actor speaks , but not everyone can on the stage can hear the words. An aside can be audible only to the audience; it can also be made to another character. Comedy - One of the five major types of drama- a story that pokes fun at individuals' or society's flaws but ends happily for the main characters Conceit- an extended metaphor, comparing several different objects or qualities; an over developed or far-fetched figure of speech ( Example: Night's candles are burnt out," ( Romeo and Juliet) Irony -The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Three Types of Irony: http://typesofirony.com/ Metaphor -- when an object or idea is expressed as if it were something else., something which shares common features. (Example: I am a rock, I am an island; someone who prefers to be alone, isolated and hardened against emotional connections) Mood - is the general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader. Mood is produced most effectively through the use of setting, theme, voice and tone,
In literature, a feeling, emotional state, or disposition of mind--especially the predominating atmosphere.
Students and critics who wish to discuss mood in their essays should be able to point to specific diction, description, setting, and characterization to illustrate what sets the mood. Motif-- A recurring theme, subject, idea, etc., especially in literary, musical, or artistic work. Paradox - a seemingly contradictory statement that may, nonetheless, be true (Example:"If a man would save his life, he must lose it," Matthew 16:25) Pun –play on two or more words with nearly the same sound but have different meanings, as in the words sole/soul; sometimes considered the lowest form of wit. (Example: "Cobbler... a mender of bad soles," Julius Caesar Stereotype - is a conventional and usually oversimplified conception or belief about a type of person. in comedies, it can be a source of humor. Theme - message Tone is a literary compound of composition, which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work.[1[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_(literature)#cite_note-1|]]] Tone may be formal, informal, intimate, solemn, somber, playful, serious, ironic, condescending, or many other possible attitudes. Each piece of literature has at least one theme, or central question about a topic, and how the theme is approached within the work is known as the tone.
The means of creating a relationship or conveying an attitude . The tone might be formal or informal, playful, ironic, optimistic, pessimistic, or sensual Wordplay - involves puns and intentional misunderstandings
Feste The Clown-- explanation of his role in Twelfth Night
TWELFTH NIGHT ONLINE TEXT
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/script-text-twelfth-night.htm
Web Quest
http://www.bardweb.net/man.html
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/religion-elizabethan-england.htm
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-period.htm
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/elizabethan-theatre.htm
TERMS
Allusion -- a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. (Example: She played Deliah to his Samson).
Asides - are passages in which the actor speaks , but not everyone can on the stage can hear the words. An aside can be audible only to the audience; it can also be made to another character.
Comedy - One of the five major types of drama- a story that pokes fun at individuals' or society's flaws but ends happily for the main characters
Conceit- an extended metaphor, comparing several different objects or qualities; an over developed or far-fetched figure of speech ( Example: Night's candles are burnt out," ( Romeo and Juliet)
Irony -The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Three Types of Irony:
http://typesofirony.com/
Metaphor -- when an object or idea is expressed as if it were something else., something which shares common features. (Example: I am a rock, I am an island; someone who prefers to be alone, isolated and hardened against emotional connections)
Mood - is the general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader. Mood is produced most effectively through the use of setting, theme, voice and tone,
In literature, a feeling, emotional state, or disposition of mind--especially the predominating atmosphere.
Students and critics who wish to discuss mood in their essays should be able to point to specific diction, description, setting, and characterization to illustrate what sets the mood.
Motif-- A recurring theme, subject, idea, etc., especially in literary, musical, or artistic work.
Paradox - a seemingly contradictory statement that may, nonetheless, be true (Example:"If a man would save his life, he must lose it," Matthew 16:25)
Pun –play on two or more words with nearly the same sound but have different meanings, as in the words sole/soul; sometimes considered the lowest form of wit. (Example: "Cobbler... a mender of bad soles," Julius Caesar
Stereotype - is a conventional and usually oversimplified conception or belief about a type of person. in comedies, it can be a source of humor.
Theme - message
Tone is a literary compound of composition, which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work.[1[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_(literature)#cite_note-1|]]] Tone may be formal, informal, intimate, solemn, somber, playful, serious, ironic, condescending, or many other possible attitudes. Each piece of literature has at least one theme, or central question about a topic, and how the theme is approached within the work is known as the tone.
The means of creating a relationship or conveying an attitude . The tone might be formal or informal, playful, ironic, optimistic, pessimistic, or sensual
Wordplay - involves puns and intentional misunderstandings
Feste The Clown-- explanation of his role in Twelfth Night
LitCharts-- Great Support for analysis, summaries, quotes, characters, themes, etc.!!!
http://www.litcharts.com/lit/twelfth-night
Scene by Scene-Annotated Text
http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/TN_Navigator/TextIndex.html
No Fear Shakespeare---Twelfth Night---Side by Side- helpful interpretation
Modern day interpretation of Shakespeare's languageclick on link below
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/twelfthnight/characters.html